WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:18.323 The Weekly Thing, issue 30. Weekly Thing for December 2, twenty seventeen. Published December 2, twenty seventeen. By Jamie Thingelstad. In this issue: Microservice Architecture, Kubernetes, avoiding state surveillance, Panopticlick, macOS High Sierra root bug, Joplin note taking, MindNode 5. 00:00:18.923 --> 00:00:34.538 This week marked the official start of the Christmas shopping season and a lot of you all went to stores and websites and bought things. I know because we were on high alert at work to make sure all of that stuff worked as it should, which we did very well! 00:00:35.038 --> 00:00:46.438 Amazon Web Services also had their annual event this week and announced an impressive array of new capabilities. I continue to be amazed at their pace of innovation, even as they get bigger. 00:00:46.938 --> 00:00:49.408 Now I need to get going on my Christmas shopping! 00:00:50.808 --> 00:00:52.466 Now, the Blog posts section. 00:00:53.066 --> 00:00:55.922 AWS re:Invent twenty seventeen Keynote Notes. 00:00:56.422 --> 00:01:01.180 Notes from the announcements at the Amazon Web Services twenty seventeen Keynote. 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:03.580 Envisioning a Cloud Native Wiki. 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:08.574 What would a modern, cloud-native approach to re-energize the wiki movement look like? 00:01:09.974 --> 00:01:11.694 That's the end of Blog posts. 00:01:13.094 --> 00:01:14.405 Now, the Photog section. 00:01:15.005 --> 00:01:21.800 Leaves are all gone, the days are short. Only a few more days until we have snow come for the rest of the winter. 00:01:22.300 --> 00:01:26.280 December 1, twenty seventeen at 4:10 PM Minneapolis MN. 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:29.011 That's the end of Photog. 00:01:30.411 --> 00:01:31.650 Now, the Links section. 00:01:32.250 --> 00:01:37.659 Link one. Microservice Architecture: All the Best Practices You Need to Know, Coding Sans. 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:43.271 Long but good post describing the various aspects of microservices architecture. 00:01:44.171 --> 00:01:46.315 Link two. Kubernetes: Getting Started. 00:01:46.815 --> 00:01:51.372 Good index of starters into the various aspects of the Kubernetes ecosystem. 00:01:52.272 --> 00:01:56.973 Link three. The Motherboard Guide to Avoiding State Surveillance, Motherboard. 00:01:57.473 --> 00:02:07.111 Practical advice in a number of areas to protect yourself against surveillance. There is almost certainly one or two things nearly anyone could apply from this. 00:02:08.011 --> 00:02:11.461 Link four. ongoing by Tim Bray · Unapocalyptic Software. 00:02:11.961 --> 00:02:16.287 I love this writeup by Tim Bray on what software development is actually like. 00:02:16.787 --> 00:02:40.916 Quote. It’s like this: You sit down to improve a piece of software, make a couple of changes, and suddenly a lot of unit tests are failing, leaving ugly red trails on your screen. (In fact, if you made changes and didn’t break unit tests, you worry that something’s wrong.) But then you dig into them one by one, and after not too long, it’s all back to green; which is really a good feeling. End quote. 00:02:41.416 --> 00:02:43.099 Fun read, and very accurate. 00:02:43.999 --> 00:02:45.127 Link five. Illimat. 00:02:45.627 --> 00:02:51.296 I’m a big fan of The Decemberists and a friend said this game was really awesome. On the Christmas list! 00:02:52.196 --> 00:02:53.588 Link six. Panopticlick. 00:02:54.088 --> 00:03:10.309 Very cool website that allows you to see what information your browser is giving away on you and how well it fights against advertising and tracking technology. I had no idea this existed and it’s great that it does. Found it via this announcement about the new version. 00:03:11.209 --> 00:03:15.010 Link seven. Quit social media, Dr. Cal Newport, TEDxTysons, YouTube. 00:03:15.510 --> 00:03:24.558 Cal Newport has made it a mission of his to get folks off of social media. This is a worthwhile 14 minutes to consider all aspects of this medium. 00:03:25.458 --> 00:03:29.078 Link eight. App: The Human Story, A documentary coming soon. 00:03:29.578 --> 00:03:41.681 This documentary looks pretty interesting. I like the focus of the intersection of how people use digital tools. Not just the human or digital side, but the power of both used positively together. 00:03:42.581 --> 00:03:48.551 Link nine. Joplin, an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation capabilities. 00:03:49.051 --> 00:03:51.859 A FOSS option for managing notes and to do's. 00:03:52.359 --> 00:04:11.659 Quote. Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format. End quote. 00:04:12.559 --> 00:04:17.081 Link ten. macOS High Sierra 'root' security bug: Stop and do this NOW, iMore. 00:04:17.581 --> 00:04:21.749 This is a massively embarrassing security hole for Apple. Now patched. 00:04:22.649 --> 00:04:24.041 Link eleven. Strongbox. 00:04:24.541 --> 00:04:28.435 Another option for storing secrets for your systems and infrastructure. 00:04:29.335 --> 00:04:33.151 Link twelve. MindNode 5, It starts with a thought, MindNode. 00:04:33.651 --> 00:04:47.276 New major release of one of my favorite mind mapping tools (the other is iThoughts). I like MindNode's simpler and light user interface. It’s a great place to do brainstorming. Also, a good review of this on MacStories. 00:04:48.176 --> 00:04:50.432 Link thirteen. MediaWiki Pivot Skin. 00:04:50.932 --> 00:05:01.940 Very impressive skin/template for MediaWiki by Tom Hutchison. Tom and I collaborated extensively on the Foreground skin when I was working on that for WikiApiary. Pivot looks great! 00:05:02.840 --> 00:05:04.592 Link fourteen. Chaos Toolkit. 00:05:05.092 --> 00:05:09.587 Nice to see more general tooling coming to the chaos engineering space. 00:05:10.087 --> 00:05:25.916 Quote. The Chaos Toolkit aims at simplifying your journey through the Principles of Chaos Engineering and more generally considers that you should embrace continuously observing and poking your system to empower your team in face of adversity. End quote. 00:05:26.816 --> 00:05:34.856 Link fifteen. Sugar industry accused of hiding evidence of sucrose's negative health effects 50 years ago, The Independent. 00:05:35.356 --> 00:05:49.806 This behavior sounds really familiar —! Food research and health effects are notoriously fuzzy and change over time so it’s easy to discount this stuff. However, an industry acting to cover-up data is alarming no matter what the outcome is. 00:05:50.706 --> 00:05:53.463 Link sixteen. RememBear: Secure Password Manager. 00:05:53.963 --> 00:06:10.517 A new entrant into the Password (Secret) Manager space. I've been a 1Password user for years (and the whole family is safe with 1Password for Families) and will stick with it. This is from the same company that makes the TunnelBear VPN offering which I have used in the past. 00:06:11.417 --> 00:06:13.338 Link seventeen. Carp, Veit's Blog. 00:06:13.838 --> 00:06:41.639 I find it fun to read through takes on various computer languages. There are so many languages and the vast majority never got any traction. A thorough blog post reviewing a language is sort of like a vacation to another country to explore it’s traditions and taste the flavors and importantly come back home shortly after. I had never heard of Carp but this is a thorough review of it. A Lisp language that compiles down to C to then be compiled natively. 00:06:43.039 --> 00:06:44.286 That's the end of Links. 00:06:45.686 --> 00:06:47.533 Now, the Featured App section. 00:06:48.133 --> 00:06:49.045 MindNode 5. 00:06:49.545 --> 00:06:50.777 by IdeasOnCanvas GmbH. 00:06:51.277 --> 00:07:01.853 A clean interface and focused feature set enable you to develop your project. Start with a thought, then take your project from first steps, to the next level, and into action. 00:07:02.353 --> 00:07:17.647 If you are looking for a solid mind mapping app for iOS this is the one I would recommend to everyone. There are more powerful ones on the market but this one is by far the easiest to use and has a great, intuitive user experience. Also available on macOS. 00:07:18.147 --> 00:07:19.443 Free 5/5 stars. 00:07:20.843 --> 00:07:22.595 That's the end of Featured App. 00:07:23.995 --> 00:07:26.001 Now, the Microblog updates section. 00:07:26.601 --> 00:07:30.424 First, 88th Annual Lutefisk Dinner at Mt. Olivet Church. Wow. 00:07:30.924 --> 00:07:35.910 Second, there is perhaps nothing more Midwest than a Lutefisk Dinner in a church basement. 00:07:36.410 --> 00:07:40.070 Third, espresso shower head and gasket certainly needed replacing. 00:07:40.570 --> 00:07:55.527 Fourth, watching the AWS re:Invent day 2 keynote and I keep noting that the they spend a lot of time talking and describing a problem, and then much less time talking about how the problem is solved. Should flip that around to focus on the solution. 00:07:56.027 --> 00:08:03.406 Fifth, AWS Cloud 9 IDE is a pretty interesting announcement. Pushes AWS into some of the space that Azure does well at. 00:08:03.906 --> 00:08:11.646 Sixth, you can import and export 1Blocker packages. I put my custom packages on GitHub so I can version them and share with others. 00:08:12.146 --> 00:08:16.848 Seventh, in our chat room today TeamSPS decided I needed some Christmas cheer! 00:08:17.348 --> 00:08:27.056 Eighth, I finally got my first house in SleepTown. Interesting app concept from the makers of Forest. Every house represents my persistence to achieve my sleeping goal! 00:08:27.556 --> 00:08:41.332 Ninth, I wish 1Blocker had a built in system for sharing and subscribing to custom packages made by other users. Similar to Workflow and TextExpander. I know there would be packages I would want to subscribe and share. 00:08:41.832 --> 00:08:49.457 Tenth, I’m still new to my Audible subscription but am liking it thus far. Think it will result in listening to more books. 00:08:49.957 --> 00:08:59.959 Number 11, thanks to @jbwhaley I have a nice little Python script so I can easily update micro.blog without getting distracted. Now to wire it into LaunchBar! 00:09:00.459 --> 00:09:05.329 Number 12, looking forward to speaking at the MHTA Annual CIO Panel next week! 00:09:05.829 --> 00:09:09.051 Number 13, 2h 46m AWS Keynote. Too long. 00:09:09.551 --> 00:09:15.966 Number 14, new AWS Transcribe should enable some nice speech-to-text features in various applications. 00:09:16.466 --> 00:09:23.020 Number 15, AWS DeepLens looks like a solution looking for a problem. Cool tech, don’t need it at all. 00:09:23.520 --> 00:09:30.120 Number 16, AWS SageMaker has promise to bring machine learning to complex problems faster and cheaper. 00:09:30.620 --> 00:09:33.729 Number 17, AWS S3 Select sounds very cool. 00:09:34.229 --> 00:09:39.622 Number 18, the house band idea during the AWS re:invent keynote seems really odd. Skip… 00:09:40.122 --> 00:09:47.084 Number 19, AWS Neptune has some promise to make graph databases more reliable and usable for applications. 00:09:47.584 --> 00:09:51.350 Number 20, Multi-master multi-region Aurora sounds great. 00:09:51.850 --> 00:09:59.298 Number 21, the new AWS EC2 Bare Metal Instance seems like an RFP checkbox requirement. Or very rare edge case need. 00:09:59.798 --> 00:10:07.022 Number 22, AWS ECS for Kubernetes announcement makes total sense. Expected and good to see them adopting this. 00:10:07.522 --> 00:10:10.954 Number 23, BTC went up 21% in the last week! 00:10:11.454 --> 00:10:17.032 Number 24, I just donated to @internetarchive. Support free access to knowledge! Donate! 00:10:17.532 --> 00:10:23.701 Number 25, happy to support Let’s Encrypt on it’s mission to provide free SSL for anyone! Donate! 00:10:24.201 --> 00:10:31.440 Number 26, I @creativecommons! I’m a proud donor of CC. Join me in building a vibrant global commons - donate now! 00:10:31.940 --> 00:10:41.257 Number 27, join me in supporting the Electronic Frontier Foundation in their twenty seventeen fundraising campaign with matching challenge grant! 00:10:41.757 --> 00:10:48.621 Number 28, gas station on my commute just added Apple Pay to pumps. Hope that is a trend that accelerates. 00:10:49.121 --> 00:11:01.191 Number 29, realized today that the group gasket and shower screen on my espresso machine is supposed to be replaced every year. I guess 10 times that long isn’t too bad. Replacements on the way! 00:11:01.691 --> 00:11:03.591 Number 30, 32-bit color. 00:11:04.091 --> 00:11:10.097 Number 31, got my ScanSnap iX500 setup tonight. Cloud scanning seems to be working well. 00:11:10.597 --> 00:11:17.444 Number 32, family night out with dinner at Bacio and then went to Coco. What a great movie! Highly recommended! 00:11:18.844 --> 00:11:21.051 That's the end of Microblog updates. 00:11:21.551 --> 00:11:28.623 Thank you for subscribing to the Weekly Thing! If you know of people that would like the Weekly Thing please forward it along! 00:11:30.023 --> 00:11:36.155 That brings us to the end of the Weekly Thing, issue 30. Thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time.